Cardinals on Rosehip Bush — Framed Piece nature This coloured pencil landscape is

This coloured pencil landscape is one of Glen's most architecturally ambitious: the mountain's limestone face rendered with the same disciplined attention he brought to animal anatomy

and the landscape behind the landing geese carries the open quality of the northern Alberta river valley: wider sky

The bushy ringed tail is raised

the eyes already carrying the focus of a predator even when the body still carries the softness of youth

This is one of Glen's most intimate and tenderly observed botanical studies: the whole violet clump rendered as a single living thing

Cardinals on Rosehip Bush — Framed Piece nature This coloured pencil landscape isA male and female Cardinal on a bare rosehip bush in late autumn the dried berries dark and clustered, the branches lifted against a softly graded winter sky. The male's red is muted slightly by the cool light, the female's warmth rhyming with the russet of the remaining hips. It is a composition built on exactly the kind of restraint that separates this watercolour from decorative bird art: nothing is brightened beyond what the actual light would